“We want to protect the southern border”: Lukashenko is drawing up troops to Ukraine
During the Russian-Belarusian exercise “Allied Resolve,” which will take place in Belarus from February 10 to 20, a significant contingent of Belarusian troops will be deployed near the border with Ukraine.
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko announced this today at a meeting with the military, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“As for our exercises with Russia, they were announced a long time ago. Last year we conducted large-scale exercises, this year we will conduct exercises in the south of Belarus. This is also important for us, because we will have to deploy an entire contingent of the Belarusian army there. They talked about this in Luninets too. And here it is not connected with any occupation. We just want to protect our southern border,” Lukashenko said.
He believes that Ukraine is pushing Belarus to take similar actions.
And such politicians (the Belarusian opposition interprets the exercises as “Russian occupation” - ed.) should pay attention to the concentration of troops not only on the border of Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, but also Ukraine. We were not the first to start paying attention to our southern border. The Ukrainians began to gather troops there. I don’t understand why,” summed up the President of Belarus.
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